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UT Arlington receives Grand Challenges Explorations grant for research in global health
A new research grant could lead to new ways to cool vaccines and medicine that must be shipped to remote parts of the world without ready access to electricity.
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- public health
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S’pore firm and Mongolian government create ‘Medical Silk Road’ to improve healthcare with mobile technology
The Mongolian government has partnered with Singapore’s Borderless Healthcare Group to improve rural healthcare through the use of mobile technology. The initiative is dubbed the ‘Medical Silk Road’.
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- Asia Pacific
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GravityLight: the low-cost lamp powered by sand and gravity
Two London designers have developed a gravity-powered lamp that could sell for as little as £3, bringing light to remote regions in developing countries
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- Energy, Technology
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- renewable energy
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The Gyaner Haats – knowledge bazaars – of Bangladesh
Faruk Ul Islam explains how his charity is developing networks that build on official channels to reach deeper into communities
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- South Asia
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VMK launch ‘first African-designed’ smartphone and tablet
A smartphone and tablet said to be the first designed by an African company have beenlaunched.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Mobile Technology a Game Changer in Developing World
As much disruption and upheaval as the Internet age has brought to far-flung industries like education, energy and finance, the emergence of mobile computing has a much greater potential for change on a global scale, a group of experts said on Thursday.
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PM says rural-urban divide in telecom growth must be bridged for socially inclusive growth
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said the full potential of telecommunication in enabling higher growth would not be realised until the use of telephones spread much wider in the rural economy of India as well.
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The Machine that Will Help End TB
Nearly 1.5 million people die from tuberculosis every year, even though most cases can be cured with routine antibiotic treatments. One country’s fight to get the ancient scourge under control has an unlikely hero: a simple diagnostic test.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health